The leaderboard rules

No jury, no mysterious algorithm, no merit. Everything below is applied automatically, to everyone, without exception. That's what honesty looks like.

1. Signing up

• You only enter the leaderboard with an invitation code. No code, no entry.
• Signup costs €0.50, once, and only asks for your company name and a valid code. Your email is collected at payment.
• The rest — website, category, punchline, logo — is set up one time only from your account, after payment. Then it's carved in stone.
• Until it's set up, your entry appears on the board name-only: no link, and in no category.
• Codes are shared in public — on X and Reddit, search “top-saas”.

2. Points

• Every signup through your code earns you points based on your plan: 1 on Free, x2 on Try Hard, x5 on Vote Maxxxer.
• When your referral buys a paid plan, you get a bonus: +1 for Try Hard, +4 for Vote Maxxxer.
• When your referral recruits in turn, you get +1 per signup. The chain stops there: depth 2 — your referral, and theirs. No pyramids, we have principles.
• The board is sorted by points. On a tie, the last one to score goes first.
• Points can't be bought directly. You buy a better multiplier, not points.

3. Codes

• A code = 8 letters or digits. One active code per SaaS: your plan is your code.
• The Free code dies 24 h after it's created and is automatically replaced with a new one. Free forever, but you have to redistribute the new one. We never said it was convenient.
• Try Hard (€3.99) and Vote Maxxxer (€9.99) codes last 7 days. On expiry, automatic return to the Free code.
• Permanent codes (monthly subscription: €7.99 or €19.99) never expire while the subscription is active. Cancelled or unpaid subscription: the code lives until the end of the paid period, then back to Free.

4. The weekly purge

• Every week, in the night from Sunday to Monday, everyone loses half their points, rounded in your favor (23 points → 12).
• Nobody escapes it. The leaderboard rewards those who are still recruiting, not those who recruited once.

5. Destruction

• A SaaS that stays a full month below 5 points is removed from the board. Permanently.
• Exception: an active subscription protects you from destruction. We don't destroy paying customers, we have ethics.

6. Clicks

• Every click on your name in the leaderboard is counted and redirects to your site, with utm_source=topsaas so you can see where it came from.

7. Categories

• There are 28 categories, and each one has its own leaderboard: the overall board, filtered. Same points, same weekly purge, same tie rule — no “category points” exist.
• You pick your category when setting up your listing, and it's fixed. No self-service moves to an empty throne to grab an easy “#1” — we see you coming.
• Categories of SaaS listed before categories existed were assigned automatically.
• Wrong category? Change it from your account — once a week, no more.

8. Moderation

• Illegal, deceptive or disgusting content: removal without notice and without refund. Bad taste is tolerated, illegality is not.
• Any attempt to technically manipulate the leaderboard (beyond recruiting, which is literally the game) may lead to the removal of the entry.

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